I think we shall stay fair.
No one wants to see fatal accidents.
I personally love the TR - specially during qualifying since I first visited in 2000.
But the ACO has to react to the accident last year.

I think we are fair.
And all respect to Allan, his family and the loss they experience. But death is a part of Motorsport, Allan knew this, excepted this, and so did his family, when they told AMR to continue racing.
Freak accidents, which many has agreed Allan's crash was, will always happen.

I think we are fair.
And all respect to Allan, his family and the loss they experience. But death is a part of Motorsport, Allan knew this, excepted this, and so did his family, when they told AMR to continue racing.
Freak accidents, which many has agreed Allan's crash was, will always happen.

As Mario Andretti said of death, "sadly, this too is racing".

I think we'd all love to have Allan Simonsen back with us, just like we'd like to have Sebastian Enjolras, Jo Gartner, and Jean-Louis Lafosse back, but if we strip away all of the risk, which we could do pretty readily, I don't think we're left with something we want to be part of.

In fact I want to see the drivers pushing the cars to the limit, too, want to be as close as possible and for sure there is a risk involved, mainly for the drivers, but also for the spectators.

There were quite a few severe accidents in the recent years, keep in mind Davidson went airborne in the Toyota or McNish's crash. (Maybe one of the reasons he retired)

People had good luck.

To attract the best drivers and manufacturers the ACO has to do all reasonable efforts to reduce risks, whilst maintaining the Le Mans spirit.

Not for the cars - for the drivers, our heroes. And to ensure that manufacturers invest in that event. See Mercedes.

I understand what your saying, and I think we are close to agreeing with each other.
But if we go by the accidents you selected, there really isn't much you can do to the track to give the drivers better chances.
- Davidson in the Toyota was a high speed crash because of a slower and poorly driven GTE AM, the run off area Davidson had was massive and asphalted, Graved would surely made the car flip and roll.
- McNishes was the result of an too brave overtaking maneuver together with poor visibility in the R18. (And I do not think this had anything to do with McNish retiring, he's "old", it was his time, like Tom K, will retire soon)
- The Mercedes flips was because of poor aerodynamics. Again, not much track safety you can do to prevent these.

But until I hear several drivers complain about the lack of safety at Le Mans, I won't support track chances that lessen the Spectator experience.

The intervention and medical vehicles were on the scene very quickly. Drivers stopping and getting out would probably have caused even more problems.

But this thread isn't (directly) about Allan's dreadful accident. So let's move on.

Don't you forgot something? The "drivers never rescued him" and "they never did" was a mistake, it should be "no one has withdrawn from the race due to that the fatality resulted in an enormous shock" and "the race was never red flagged", but no offense. Post edit below.